Together with her ex husband Albano, she twice achieved 7th place at the Eurovision Song Contest, in 1976 with "We'll live it all again" and in 1985 with "Magic, Oh Magic".

Her eldest daughter Ylenia Carrisi (b. November 1970) was visiting New Orleans when she went missing in the French Quarter. She had been staying at the LeDale Hotel with a street musician when she was last seen on 6 January 1994. The man was arrested in connection with her disappearance by the New Orleans police detectives, but later released due to lack of evidence. She has yet to be found.

She moved to Rome, Italy, together with her mother and sister, in the early 60s.

One half of Italy's most popular singing duo in the 1970s and 1980s, with her husband Albano. Their songs include "Felicità" (1982), "Ci sarà" (1984), winning title at the Sanremo Festival, "Sempre sempre" (1986) and "Nostalgia canaglia" (1987).

She met her singer and actor husband Albano Carrisi whilst acting in films in the 1960s. They married in 1970. In 1975 they formed a singing duo, which became well known in Italy, Germany, Austria, Spain, France, Greece, Latin America, Eastern Europe and the USSR, releasing multiple albums in different languages and achieving 7th place in both the 1976 and 1985 Eurovision Song Contest for Italy. The couple divorced in 1999.